Improvement in paper-files



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SIMON E. PETTEE AND CLARENCE A. WLLE, 0F BETHLEHEM, PENN- SYLVANYA.

Letters Patent No. 108,623, dated Getobel' 25,1870.

AlMPROV'EMENT 1N PAPR'FILES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent. anzi making part 0f the same.

lo uli yrenom it 'may concern Be it known that we, SIMON E. PETTEE and Grumns'on A. Wonne, both of Bethiehom,' in the county oi Northmnpton nml State of Pennsylvanie, have invented n. new and improved File for Letters, Bills, Papers, Sie.; und we do hereby dechire the fellowing io he n full, clean', und exact deserilxiion thereof, whieli will enable others skilled in the :1re te which it'. spoortnins to marke und use our invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms u, pari'. of' this specification, end in which- Figure l is :L perspective viewV oi' the filo unbound and closed;

Y.Figure 2, a perspective view ot' the l unbound and open, so as to be in position for filing pepers; and

Figure 3,1 perspective view ofv the file hound.

The same parts nre denoted hy the same letters in all the figures.

A A' represent the halves of the hack of the file, made el tin, oreny other suitable materiel, and hinged together in any convenient wey, as seen ai; e' e e.

To the perl; A' of the heck ere rigidly fastened the pins or needles e o o, and to the parl'. A are secured the shields or guards l) D B, in sach position that; the points of the needles are oppesite to there when the tile is closed, es shown ngs. 1 ami 3.

L L aneelastie hands, which, in iig. 1, are shown as keeping the ie closed, and in iig. 2 keeping it open. The operation of our improved file is as follows:

The back being first opened so wide that the spring bands tend to keep in open, as shown in fig. 2, the papers, or other articles required to be filed, are stuck on the needles in the usuel wey,and the beek is their closed and `heid firmly in that position by the spring bands, ns shown in iig. 3.

What we claim es our invention, and desire te secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

'l'he combination of the hinged baekwith spring bauds, which retain in in the open and also in the closed position, es described.

SIMON E. PETTEE. CLARENCE A. WOLLE Witnesses Levin J. KRAUsE. SAM. BREMER. 

